Our Courses

Practical Improvement Science in Health Care: A Roadmap for Getting Results

Learn the skills and tools of improvement science to make positive changes in health, healthcare, and your daily life.

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• 18
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Lessons from Ebola: Preventing the Next Pandemic

Understanding the context for the Ebola outbreak: What went right, what went wrong, and how we can all do better.

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• 23
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Humanitarian Response to Conflict and Disaster

Learn the principles guiding humanitarian response to modern emergencies, and the challenges faced in the field today.

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• 40
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Causal Diagrams: Draw Your Assumptions Before Your Conclusions

Learn simple graphical rules that allow you to use intuitive pictures to improve study design and data analysis for causal inference.

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• 9
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PredictionX: John Snow and the Cholera Epidemic of 1854

An in-depth look at the 1854 London cholera epidemic in Soho and its importance for the field of epidemiology.

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PredictionX: Omens, Oracles & Prophecies

This course is an overview of divination systems, ranging from ancient Chinese bone burning to modern astrology.

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Super-Earths and Life

Learn about the Earth, life, and how we can search for life elsewhere in the universe.

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• 30
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Global Health Case Studies from a Biosocial Perspective

Reimagine global health problems with some of the leading global health thinkers and actors through a case-based biosocial framework.

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• 20
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Women Making History: Ten Objects, Many Stories

Learn how American women created, confronted, and embraced change in the 20th century while exploring ten objects from Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library.

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• 8
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Tangible Things: Discovering History Through Artworks, Artifacts, Scientific Specimens, and the Stuff Around You

Gain an understanding of history, museum studies, and curation by looking at, organizing, and interpreting art, artifacts, scientific curiosities, and the stuff of everyday life.

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• 28
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Digital Design

The online course is an introduction to digital design technology. It allows you to understand the basics of digital design and helps you develop skills from computer-aided design to animation covering topics such as rigging, keyframing, rendering, and more.

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Computer Architecture

This course in computer architecture will take you from an understanding of digital design using combinational logic and synchronous sequential building blocks to building your own single-cycle multicycle, and pipelined microprocessors.

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Solar Resource Assessment in Desert Climates

Learn how to use the components of solar radiation,solar spectrum, forecasting and meteorology to advocate and plan for deploying PV in desert climates

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Using Photovoltaic (PV) Technology in Desert Climates

Learn how to mitigate the challenges related to PV technology and enhance the performance of solar cells and PV modules in desert climates.

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Navigating Legal & Commercial Aspects of Sports

Leading academics in their respective fields will introduce you to the dynamic world of sports law and related business principles. You will develop an overall understanding of the key legal and commercial aspects of sports. You will gain useful insights into their application based on actual scenarios involving athletes and teams. You will test your learning by applying it to hypothetical problems involving sports.

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Islamic Bioethics

This course provides an introductory, accessible but also in-depth overview of the emerging and promising field of Islamic Bioethics. It is developed and taught by one of the world’s leading scholars in Islamic Ethics, Dr. Mohammed Ghaly (Professor of Islam and Biomedical Ethics). The course explores how the rich Islamic moral tradition engages with the complex questions triggered by the cutting-edge biomedical advancements.

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International Charities in Humanitarian Crises

This course is a tailor-made introduction about the variety of issues that may arise in the context of charitable organizations, with the aim of strengthening the responses and overall knowledge of their leadership.

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BPMN Modeling Adapted to Business Process Analysis

The concepts presented in this course are intended to enable the modeling of low, medium and high complexity business processes using BPMN modeling.

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Humanities in Focus

Humanities in Focus is about raising questions rather than providing you with answers.

You will engage in ongoing conversations about social issues in film, challenges and opportunities in art, experience and consciousness in history, and the power of language. This type of humanistic inquiry will allow you to uncover the many insights that draw from the topics in this course, and more importantly to reflect on the fundamental question: Why does humanities matter?

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Advanced Cardiac Imaging: Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR)

​First ever cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) MOOC! Learn the CMR essentials through short videos, downloadable cases, and web forums. Available in multiple languages.

这是第一个关于心脏磁共振（CMR）的大型网上公开课！您将通过短视频，可下载的病例和线上论坛学习CMR物理、扫描序列和分析图像。本课程提供多种语言版本。

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Advanced Cardiac Imaging: Cardiac Computed Tomography (CT)

First-ever cardiac CT MOOC! Learn essential knowledge for cardiac CT through short videos, downloadable cases & forums. Available in multiple languages and provides material to meet level 1 requirements in Cardiac CT.

这是第一个关于心脏CT的MOOC! 通过播放短视频，下载病例和线上学术研讨会学习心脏CT的解剖学，图像采集技术和分析并报告图像的能力。该课程提供多种语言，并提供满足心脏CT一级要求的材料。

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Implant Dentistry

Learn Implant Dentistry from world-class specialists and researchers! Join the state of art in the biology, the technology and clinical management in implant dentistry today!

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Digital Biomaterials

Learn and discover the special, exciting and new materials and technologies in dentistry to make a difference in tomorrow’s oral health care development. It is Digital Biomaterials by HKU Dental Materials Science!

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Biomaterials and Your Health

Are you interested in learning and discovering biomaterials, nanotechnologies and standardisation in dentistry? Do you want to make a difference in tomorrow’s oral health care development? Join Biomaterials and Your Health developed by HKU Dental Materials Science!

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Oral Health Care for Autistic Children

Make a difference in the oral health care of autistic children and bring a happy smile with positive behavioural management and minimally clinical intervention.

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